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  <Title>TTP: A FAST AND ROBUST PARSER FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE</Title>
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5. ROBUSTNESS
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    <Paragraph position="0"> TIP is a robust parser and it will process nearly every sentence or phrase, provided the latter is reasonably correctly tagged. 17 The lmrser robustness is further increased by allowing for a gradual degradation of its performance rather than an outright failure in the face of an unexpected input. Each sentence or phrase is attempted to be analyzed in up to four ways: (1) as a sentence, (2) as a noun phrase or a preposition phrase with a right adjunct(s), (3) as a gemndive clause, and if all these fail, (4) as a series of simple noun phrases, with each of these attempts allotted a fresh time slice) s The purpose of this extension is to accommodate some infrequent but still important constrnctions, such as dries, itemizations, and lists.</Paragraph>
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